New York considers loosening requirements for funeral directors as bodies pile up – POLITICO

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The potential executive order would dovetail with an existing effort by the state’s Funeral Directors Association to hire upstate funeral directors to New York City to assist their overwhelmed coworkers. And they can’t,” stated Anthony Cassieri, who runs Brooklyn Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Brownsville. Funeral directors are a key link in the chain that links coronavirus victims to their last resting places. Cassieri believes the state should give funeral directors access to mobile crematories, so “we could start cremating our own work,” he stated. Funeral, cemetery and crematory workers aren’t simply processing those killed by the coronavirus.

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